Ed Brubaker Quotes
There is no us, and you know that as well as I do. There can’t be. This is just a dream we’re having. While all our friends sleep.
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Life in California is beautiful.
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If you're in the best team in the world, you or your teammate have to win.
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All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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On June 23, 1864, Ambrose Bierce was in command of a skirmish line of Union soldiers at Kennesaw Mountain in northern Georgia. He'd been a soldier for three years and, in that time, had been commended by his superiors for his efficiency and bravery during battle.
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The guy who says, 'I love the challenge of managing,' is one step from being out of a job.
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I know some people say I can be funny. But there is always a deeper meaning to what I say. I am a socialist at heart and have the interests of the poor in mind. When people see how I manage to work my way out of tough situations, it gives them hope in their own life.
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Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.
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I'm not comparing myself to Bobby Kennedy by any stretch, but he was opposed by the liberal establishment, too. Eleanor Roosevelt was the biggest opponent to him running.
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What's completely insane to me is that people would consider music that's simple to be dumbed-down. Couldn't simplicity be a deliberate, smart choice?
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There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
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It's not the most intellectual job in the world, but I do have to know the letters.
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A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
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I had been playing since I was 2 years old, never remembering a life without music, always playing everything naturally and mostly by ear, and all the grownups wanted were more scales and drudgery out of me.
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I remember wanting to do something about that enormous-faced wristwatch she was wearing - perhaps suggest that she try wearing it around her waist.
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Maar één ding weet ik nu en dat is dit: je leert de mensen pas goed kennen, als je een keer echte ruzie met ze gemaakt hebt. Pas dan kan je hun karakter beoordelen!
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If we make anything that lasts, it outlives us.
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I love to fight. I love the preparation. I love to learn new things, always overcoming myself.
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I guess I rooted for the Creature from the Black Lagoon.
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In an ideal world, I'm eating dinner at home before I have a DJ gig.
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I was very influenced by The Magic Mountain. It's a book that had a huge impact on me. I loved that as a shape for a novel: put a bunch of people in a beautiful place, give them all tuberculosis, make them all stay in a fur sleeping bag for several years and see what happens.
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There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.
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Drugs were pretty easy to quit taking. I was never addicted to anything to begin with. But then, liquor - I had to wait about another six years before I finally got around to quitting that. I'm sure glad I did.
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It is a fact that Mussolini entered the scene of world politics as an ally of the democracies, while Lenin entered it as a virtual ally of imperial Germany.
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There is no us, and you know that as well as I do. There can’t be. This is just a dream we’re having. While all our friends sleep.
